North Carolina Republicans picked a bigot in do-over primary

State Sen. Dan Bishop prevailed in Tuesday’s Republican primary
race to fill North Carolina’s 9th District congressional seat,
with 48% of the vote. The results of the previous election
during the 2018 midterms had been tossed out following an
alleged ballot tampering scandal involving Republican
operatives.

Previous Republican candidate Mark Harris, whose campaign was
responsible for the election fraud, opted not to participate in
the new election, citing vague “health concerns.” He had
endorsed one of Bishop’s opponents, Stony Rushing, but Rushing
only garnered 20% of the vote. Bishop won by a wide enough
margin to avoid a runoff and proceed to the general election
against Democrat Dan McCready.

Though candidates raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in
the race, turnout was very low, with only 10% of voters in the
district participating in the primary.

Bishop is perhaps best known as being one of the original
authors of HB2, North Carolina’s 2016 law that targeted
transgender people for discrimination by prohibiting them from
using public bathrooms that match their gender identity. “What
we did was restore common sense, and we did it on a statewide
basis,” he
to defend the bill.

Backlash to HB2 cost North Carolina $3.76 billion in lost
business, and significant aspects of the law were repealed a
year later.

Though Bishop has tried to downplay HB2 as a thing of the past,
he nevertheless leaned into his own extremist positions for
this campaign. In March, he published a 90-second ad called
“” that
attacked prominent Democrats in Congress, seemingly for such
radical positions as opposing racism, opposing mass shootings,
and opposing caging children.

Bishop was also an early investor in , the social
media platform favored by far-right extremists and white
nationalists, including the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter. When
he was called out for that investment last fall, Bishop claimed
that if Gab “allows its users to promote violence,
anti-Semitism and racism on its platform they certainly have
misled investors.” Gab’s reputation, however, preceded his
investment.

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